This is the latest in an occasional series of blog posts commenting on upcoming retirement.

It has come to this.

We haven’t even embarked on our next road trip pulling our fifth wheel and we’re already thinking ahead to the next trip, or the next two — or maybe three — excursions.

The next one is mapped out: the Texas Hill Country, then over to Ruidoso, N.M. to meet up with sis and her husband.

The one after that is a little less firm, but it’s taking shape: heading east to D.C., to see our niece and her husband, then to Roanoke to see good friends; after that it’s still up in the air. We’re awaiting to hear firm travel plans from some friends in Israel who are coming Stateside to attend a Rotary International conference.

The one after that one is even less set up: Metroplex to see family and then head for points south and east. Details will be worked out later.

That’s what it’s come to. We cannot avoid planning far beyond our next journey.

We plan much more of this as a change in our lives overtakes us. You’ll be kept apprised of that change as it occurs. Rest assured that it involves spending more time with our precious granddaughter.

More to come on that part of our lives, too.